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Subject: Re: Any chance to increase the hash in CM7000?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:06:38 03/07/00

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On March 07, 2000 at 04:22:43, Harald Faber wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>Is there a way to increase the hash size in CM7000? It is said that FreeMem and
>other software show no difference in memory access, no matter if the ttable_size
>in the .ini's are set to 20, 25 or other values.

Harald,

I am very sorry to report that the development team has looked into this and it
appears to be a bug. They have no explanation for it, as the code that
initializes the engine SUPPOSEDLY did not change during the rewrite from CM6000
to CM7000 (since the engine itself did not change). However, what you report
appears to be true.

Unfortunately, because CM7000 has been officially put to bed, there will almost
certainly not be a patch. Officially, since there isn't a way using the GUI to
change the hash table size, then this ability is considered one of those
"unsupported features". Therefore it doesn't warrant the time to create, test
and put up a patch.

Also, considering the recent layoffs here at Mattel Interactive (the new boss in
town), no one is willing to stick their heads above their respective trenches.

The development team tells me, however, that in the next version there WILL be a
way in the GUI to change the hash table to be anything you want, from 8K to
64MB.

jm



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